Trainshed

Arches, St. Pancras Station

Designer: Sir Gilbert Scott

Builders: Butterley Company

1868-77

London

This photograph shows a point at which Sir George Gilbert Scott's Midland Grand Hotel meets the iron of William Henry Barlow's iron-and-glass trainshed — Victorian architecture (an art form) meets Victorian engineering. [GPL]

Photograph 2007 and text by Jacqueline Banerjee.

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